Spotlight:Zaha Hadid

The Civil Courts of Justice Project for Madrid Spain.

Urban Nebula installtion

Zaha’s Vortexx chandelier


In 2004, The Pritzker Prize for Architecture was awarded to Zaha Hadid, the first woman to receive the reward in its 26-year history.
Until recently, Hadid was more famous not for the buildings she had built, but for the ones she had not. This is because her very strong character and single mindedness made clients run to the hills, preserving her designs only in dramatic images.

London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre


With 30 years of experience under her belt and such projects as MAXXI Contemporary Arts Centre in Rome; the BMW Central Building in Wolfsburg Germany; the Cincinnati Art Center in the U.S; and Opera Houses in Dubai and Guangzhou; Ms. Hadid was given a dream project: the London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre.

Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi

Her architectural career has not been traditional or easy, but Zaha has still managed to cement her reputation as one of the world's most exciting and significant contemporary architects.
BMW Central Building in Wolfsburg

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Spotlight: Thomas Heatherwick

The Rolling Bridge

Longchamp Flagship in NYC

Thomas Heatherwick is known for his innovative engineering and use of materials. The popularity of Heatherwick's designs shows us his drive to make his work comprehensible to people who don't know the first thing about design. His work sometimes get this London-based designer mislabeled as a sculptor or artist.

B of the Bang

The Bleigiessen

The perfect example of how powerfully Heatherwick's designs affect people would be "The Bleigiessen" in central London. Th seven-story sculpture is made up of more than a hundred and forty-two thousand glass spheres, in a pattern outlining the shape of molten lead dropped in water. The Wellcome Trust, a British medical foundation, got a taste of the Heatherwick effect three years ago, after it commissioned him to do The Bleigiessen for their atrium. The foundation is closed to the public, but demand to see the sculpture has been so intense that it now opens its doors once a month to show off Heatherwick's work.

The Vents


Harvey Nichols

Heatherwick founded the Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice.
The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, master-planning and infrastructure schemes, as well as high profile works of public art.

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